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Saturday, 04 June 2005

IPTV will bring FolkTV

Ramesh Jain writes: "After a false start about a decade ago, Video-on-Demand (VoD) may really be arriving. Of course things have changed a lot in the last 10 years, both in technology and social-business aspects, and hence the character of VoD appearing now will be very different. For one thing, it may not even be called VoD, though some key players like Comcast still refer to it as VoD. More commonly people call it IPTV. And I would not be surprised if MobTV (Mobile TV using phones) may emerge as an important distribution mechanism for the future generations of IPTV in addition to PCs and TVs. ..." Link: Ramesh Jain weblog.